Flash MX 2004 Games

4 Using CGI Programs to Create Animation

Although Flash is a great tool for creating and editing drawn animation, another method for creating animations for Flash games is to use a computer animation program. Teaching the techniques required to use all the many computer animation programs is way beyond the scope of this book, but the principles common to all programs are briefly covered in this chapter. Having created your animation images you then need to get them into Flash. To do this you can use certain import methods such as swf generators like Vecta3D, Swift3D and Flicker, or you can use bitmap images directly from within Flash. We will consider the options, which you can then judge from both a design perspective and the impact on file ...